CAMFED catalyzes the power of the most vulnerable girls and young women to create the future they imagine: for themselves, for their communities, and for Africa.
What we do
Through the CAMFED Association, women are leading action on the big challenges their countries face - from child marriage, and girls’ exclusion from education, to unemployment and climate change.
Social justice starts with educated girls, supporting each other to become independent, influential women, working together with communities to provide equal access to tools and opportunities for all.
When women gain access to skills training, resources and opportunities to grow rural enterprises, they gain economic independence and agency, supporting themselves, their families and communities to thrive.
Educated women make choices that reduce future carbon emissions and increase community resilience to climate change, including through leadership for sustainable futures and the adoption of climate-smart technologies.
CAMFED's holistic model of financial and social support radically improves girls’ prospects of becoming independent, influential women.
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Since 1993, we have supported 4,885,221 children to go to school in Ghana, Tanzania, Malawi, Zambia and Zimbabwe
The CAMFED Association - our powerful network of women leaders educated with CAMFED support - is 177,899 strong and counting
308,054 CAMFED Champions (parents, teachers, traditional leaders, district officials and graduates) actively champion and support the advancement of girls and young women in their communities
CAMFED supports girls in 6,787 government partner schools across 161 districts to access school, succeed, and become leaders of change in their communities
Every school graduate joining the CAMFED Association shares her expertise with others, and financially supports at least 3 more girls to go to school.*
Girls educated with CAMFED’s support belong to Africa’s largest and fastest-growing network of young women leaders, who are capitalizing on their own education to support many more girls through school.
And as community leaders, they pass on the skills they learn to even more young women, creating employment and opportunity, tackling inequality and injustice.
This is what we call the CAMFED Multiplier Effect, and what Nicholas Kristof of The New York Times calls a “perpetual motion machine” — the positive impact a girl’s education has on others’ lives.
*On average – some support many more!
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CAMFED Co-Executives Angeline Murimirwa and Lucy Lake are urging the global education community to take an approach that is both inclusive and disruptive in order to change the status quo and deliver social justice.
On October 13th, 2021, three of our leaders - Angeline Murimirwa, Fiona Mavingha and Lydia Wilbard - accepted the 2021 Conrad N. Hilton Humanitarian Prize on behalf of all in our global movement.
The prestigious 2021 Princess of Asturias Award for International Cooperation recognizes our work in supporting girls to learn, thrive and lead, with an eagle eye on sustainability, equity and social justice.
Together with the Yidan Prize Foundation and the University of Cambridge, CAMFED hosted a conference at Jesus College, Cambridge on October 7th, 2021. Relive the day as global experts showcase research and practice for 'Creating an equitable future through education.'
"CAMFED empowers girls and young women, and they in turn reshape their countries. Girls' education may be the highest-return investment available in the world today." - Nicholas Kristof, New York Times Op-Ed Columnist
In a year that tested us all, our power came from our grassroots leadership - the young educated women in the CAMFED Association, who will stop at nothing to make sure girls stay safe and keep learning. And it came from all of you, who joined and supported our movement at this pivotal moment.
Erica Choi $50
Urszula Wozniacka €20
Elisabeth Curtis $100
Richard Fosse €25
Hannah Jardine £157
Getruda Amos $10
Jan Garrill £230
Ellen Yount $150
Takudzwa Chakauya Mukwenha $10
Shaun O'Leary £30
Olivia Smith $20
Janet E Alexander $72
Bella Stoehr $700
Alastair Brown $40
Robert Genovese $30
